然
rán HSK2

yes

然 rán
-ly idiom
adverbial suffix indicating a state, manner, or condition

他突然站了起来。

tā tū rán zhàn le qi​lai.

He suddenly stood up.

so pronoun
so; thus; in this way

大家都以为他会放弃，其实不然。

dà​jiā dōu yǐ​wéi tā huì fàng​qì, qí​shí bù rán.

Everyone thought he would give up, but that was not the case.

correct pronoun
to be right or correct

他听了我的分析后点头称然，认为非常有道理。

tā tīng le wǒ de fēn​xī hòu diǎn​tóu chēng rán, rèn​wéi fēi​cháng yǒu dào​li.

He nodded in agreement after hearing my analysis, finding it very sensible.

Cross-References

Has old variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
55th most common 2640.9 per million
Movie subtitles
85th most common 1953.7 per million appears in 100% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
16.0 per million appears in 6% of films
Written text
44.0 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 2
HSK 3.0
Level 2
Strokes
12
Unicode
U+7136

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)